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The CLANG38 toolchain creates a PIE binary at link time. This is
necessary since the LTO code generation may otherwise result in
code that cannot execute correctly when loaded above 2 GB.
PIE executables contain a RELA section consisting of dynamic
relocation entries that are intended for consumption by the loader
at runtime. For this reason, it has the SHF_ALLOC attribute set by
default, and will be identified by GenFw as a section that needs to
be copied into the PE/COFF binary, resulting in waste of space since
the PE/COFF loader does not use this data at all.
So mark the RELA section as informational: this will prevent the
linker from setting the SHF_ALLOC attribute, causing GenFw to
ignore it.
DxeCore.efi before:
Detected 'X64' type PE/COFF image consisting of 3 sections
Section alignment: 0x40
File alignment: 0x40
Section '.text' @ 0x00000240
File offset: 0x240
Virtual size: 0x21000
Raw size: 0x21000
Section '.data' @ 0x00021240
File offset: 0x21240
Virtual size: 0x3640
Raw size: 0x3640
Section '.reloc' @ 0x00024880
File offset: 0x24880
Virtual size: 0x280
Raw size: 0x280
DxeCore.efi after:
Detected 'X64' type PE/COFF image consisting of 3 sections
Section alignment: 0x40
File alignment: 0x40
Section '.text' @ 0x00000240
File offset: 0x240
Virtual size: 0x1f440
Raw size: 0x1f440
Section '.data' @ 0x0001f680
File offset: 0x1f680
Virtual size: 0x3640
Raw size: 0x3640
Section '.reloc' @ 0x00022cc0
File offset: 0x22cc0
Virtual size: 0x280
Raw size: 0x280
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
This directory contains the next generation of EDK II build tools and template files. Templates are located in the Conf directory, while the tools executables for Microsoft Windows 32-bit Operating Systems are located in the Bin\Win32 directory, other directory contatins tools source. 1. Build step to generate the binary tools. === Windows/Visual Studio Notes === To build the BaseTools, you should run the standard vsvars32.bat script from your preferred Visual Studio installation or you can run get_vsvars.bat to use latest automatically detected version. In addition to this, you should set the following environment variables: * EDK_TOOLS_PATH - Path to the BaseTools sub directory under the edk2 tree * BASE_TOOLS_PATH - The directory where the BaseTools source is located. (It is the same directory where this README.txt is located.) * PYTHON_FREEZER_PATH - Path to where the python freezer tool is installed After this, you can run the toolsetup.bat file, which is in the same directory as this file. It should setup the remainder of the environment, and build the tools if necessary. Please also refer to the 'BuildNotes.txt' file for more information on building under Windows. === Unix-like operating systems === To build on Unix-like operating systems, you only need to type 'make' in the base directory of the project. === Ubuntu Notes === On Ubuntu, the following command should install all the necessary build packages to build all the C BaseTools: sudo apt-get install build-essential uuid-dev === Python sqlite3 module === On Windows, the cx_freeze will not copy the sqlite3.dll to the frozen binary directory (the same directory as build.exe and GenFds.exe). Please copy it manually from <PythonHome>\DLLs. The Python distributed with most recent Linux will have sqlite3 module built in. If not, please install sqlit3 package separately. 26-OCT-2011